http://www.haloscan.com/ Latest comments for jeffvehige. Syndicated by HaloScan http://www.haloscan.com/ http://www.haloscan.com/halolink.gif http://www.haloscan.com/ 88 31 Commenting Powered by HaloScan.com http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsr#59140 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:20:17 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsrs#59140 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsrs#59140 Marc -- I envy your having heard Sutherland's Norma; she may have been the greatest ever in that role. Do you remember that the Rolling Stones were doing a concert in the Cotton Bowl the same night as Sutherland's farewell Merry Widow? If you stepped outside the Music Hall during intermission you could hear "Wild Horses" and "Gimme Shelter" and "Time Is On My Side" drifting across the Texas http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsr#59126 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:57:27 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsrs#59126 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9047426856822168084/?src=hsrs#59126 I only got to hear Dame Joan twice. Once in her next to last "Norma" in Detroit and then at the Dallas "Widow." I was so overtaken by "Norma" that my memory of it is a blur. "The Merry Widow" was the most fun I ever had in the theater. http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsr#58620 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:58:49 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58620 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58620 Welcome, Louise. There is indeed a kind of cultivated insularity among those on the secular left. I get the impression sometimes that they don't know anybody who disagrees with them -- and don't particularly want to. The old Pauline Kael Syndrome, I guess: "How could Nixon have won? I don't know a single person who voted for him." (Yes, I know she didn't really say it, but it still epitomize http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsr#58619 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:05:51 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58619 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58619 Came here via MAclin's. There is no such thing as unbiased history. Home-schooled children, at least, know that, and they know what their teachers' biases are. So true. Government-schooled children are allowed -- no, encouraged -- to believe that all biases have been conscientiously purged from the intellectual atmosphere in which they breathe. That is the most dangerous intelle http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsr#58154 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:21:08 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58154 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58154 Well, I have two books about that on a shelf in my bedroom, one of which I bought because it was on clearance for $2.00. I never can get very far into them, though, because there's always so much more to read. And then again, it reminds me of C. S. Lewis. In the 13 years that I have been in the CSL Society, I have read confident opinions from many people that if Lewis had lived, surely he would... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsr#58066 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:07:27 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58066 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58066 Janet -- Congratulations on striking a blow for Shakespeare scholarship -- and common sense. Everybody knows the Bard could never have made such a statement. On the other hand, if that hidden acrostic had spelled out "I am a Catholic".... http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsr#58041 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:22:10 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58041 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/9221348113159469824/?src=hsrs#58041 Last year I had to work on a Shakespeare project with 3 other students in my B. Lit class. One of them was quite excited to have found the following: "When reading horizontally from Shakespeare’s original published copy of Hamlet, the furthest left hand side reads ‘I am a homosexual’ in the last 14 lines of the book. Was this a message, or just a coincidence?" I did manage, I think, to convin http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/293895749312495950/?src=hsr#57714 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:35:38 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/293895749312495950/?src=hsrs#57714 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/293895749312495950/?src=hsrs#57714 This really makes me miss my children. AMDG http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsr#57155 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:03:31 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsrs#57155 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsrs#57155 Well, this particular priest is 15 years younger than I am, so I'm hoping that he can still drag himself up on the altar even if I live to be quite old. AMDG http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsr#57038 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:01:06 +0000 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsrs#57038 http://www.haloscan.com/comments/jeffvehige/6685534693195829852/?src=hsrs#57038 Admirable forethought, Janet. Although I would hope that the priest who is going to celebrate your funeral Mass is, at present, a boy too young to realize he even has a vocation.